Management is trying their best to communicate business position, impact of government changes, new markets of interest and emerging opportunities. Organization is doing a great job of diversifying into commercial business and offering new opportunities for their current employees. Management team promotes from within and has been successful providing employees with new opportunities as current contracts come to completion.

Cons

When business tightens and you need to do more with less it is important that your peers share the same dedication to the business and have the same work ethic. The organization does a good job of rewarding performance but is not quick to act on non-performers. QinetiQ could do a better job of identifying bottom performers and dealing with them to ensure top performer moral.

They offer good pay, the co-workers are friendly and management can be great. There are usually contracts available in many different areas for different government agencies.

Cons

They don't care about finding you follow on work after your contract ends. They treat you more as a resource to get contract dollars instead of as a human being. It doesn't really matter how well you do on a particular contract, there is no real opportunity for advancement. Contractors are left to fend for them self's if there is no follow up funding. The company tends to absorb smaller companies and add a great amount of bureaucracy to their operations.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Try and overcome high turn over rates and give opportunities for worker advancement.

Interesting Gov't contract working with Department of Homeland Security. Good balence of work and homelife. Adapting to constant change of Gov't red tape a must.

Cons

Gov't employees paid equivalent of contractors but don't have a clue are not held accountable and cannot be fired. Gov't employees are poorly trained and unmotivated. Might not get re-hired when contract rools over.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Have better understanding of what average employee does on a daily basis. Better retirement plan with company vestment in 401K occuring over a shorter time period.

Interesting types of work and trials. The people who actually do the work not including any form of management, are a good lot of people to work with.

Cons

They will take as much as they can from you and give no reward. Then when they find out you have a disability they will drop you at the first chance!

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Just because someone does not fit in to your ideal world does not mean that they are useless. Take your heads out your arses and listen to the people who are on the floor. Also if someone has a disability, dont refuse them any further employment and don, t discriminate them!

A business that retains a near monopoly position within the UK Defence R&D market. Some talented scientists and engineers, engaged in genuinely exciting work.

Cons

QinetiQ is a good example of what happens when a business fails to transition from a (very necessary) turnaround phase back into growth:- Managers frustrated by weak results prey on staff in order to appease a turnaround CEO. Talented staff angered by managerial errors, exit the business. Talent goes unreplaced, and the business attracts the wrong type of opportunist. It is difficult to envisage positive outcomes for a business with a self-perpetuating, nihlistic culture. An HBR case study is waiting to be written about this broken business with a broken business model...

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Like any problem, recovery starts with acknowledging that a problem exists. Look for evidence of admission that QinetiQ has a problem and has a plan to address it.

Mad levels of training if you are lucky and if you land on the right project you will do exceptionally well

Cons

Most of the good staff have left when it got privatised and they are effectively left with the 'dregs' who know they wont get a job else where. New staff are often Ex Military many of who are totally useless. There are a lot of moaning ex public sector who are just there for a job rather than to work and can't find a job else where(Why should anyone respect/value employees if they add very little to the company).

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Find better ways to weed out the bad performers, maybe ask who would be interested in Voluntary redundancy and sack everyone who doesn't ask for it. (Probably isn't legal) Why would I leave if I didn't think I would find a job else where, why wouldn't I if I could and get paid for it?